https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kadmon#Gnosticism

Most Gnostic language is taken from Greek because Gnosticism emerged from Neoplatonic philosophy.

The idea is that the archetypal man is a divine being, and really this doesn't have an affect on factual reality, it is not necessarily supernatural because it is not claiming the divine directly contacts factual reality.

If God's consciousness is corporeal, and untainted by the material world, not tainted by contact with matter, how can a human with a single consciousness contact it?

Let alone become one with t

And, if any humna did do that, or ever did do that, that consciousness would no longer be corporeal

God is not corporeal

He is the opposite

It says that his thought is corporeal on that wiki page

Sorry no it doesnt

I was reading the wrong thing

Let me go again: If God's mind is not corporeal, and hasnt been darkened by contact with the material world or matter, how can it be joined with a consciousness that you described as arising from the composite parts of our physical being?

Through reflections of his light in images.

In essence, through some supernatural phenomenon

Supernatural is a very subjective term, and I wouldn't call it supernatural, I would call it metaphysical phenomenon.

Which is an abstraction of philosophy

An abstraction isn't a supernatural concept though.

No, but neither philosophy nor religion are scientifically quantifiable

I believe where this was all coming from was whether a supernatural or metaphysical being was necessary for humans, and whether atheism replaced that, or in my view whether that supposition was in actual fact a valid supposition and that there is a possibility of a human to exercise their free will to think freely

**Question**: Should political topics be involved in tests like the SAT and ACT? I just took the PSAT today, and in the reading section there were two excerpts about black feminism. Though I forget what the excerpts were from, it offset me to see it in such a test.

No.

But the colleges have decided that's "nonpolitical" and inline with what they want to teach.

Unless you can rally enough people to really fight back...

It's troubling to me because the test makers are fairly secretive in what they put in the test.

I hate to break it to you, but the next 4 years are only going to get worse.

I'm in academia (sort of) and I can say that's exactly the kind of thing they do these days.

True, I remember taking the PSAT 2 years ago and there no questions of that sort back then.

Yeah, the far left kinda has uncontested control of the humanities at this point.

There's as many or more radicals in departments like Sociology than there are moderates.

And (in all likelihood) 0 conservatives of any kind. And those that do exist don't exactly have the mass to accomplish anything besides get defunded.

If you want someone to talk to, you're welcome to PM me anytime.

And for students there's definitely organizations you can join.

Thanks, I just find it disturbing that the excerpts are in such a widespread test like the PSAT.

I find it disturbing too. But I'm somehow unsurprised.

The excepts had to have gone through a slew of people to be approved, and apparently none of them thought it wasn't political

Mostly underpaid faculty and grad students in humanities programs.

You should look at the colloquia list. It's farther Social Justice Left than you've ever imagined. Even at "right wing" schools in "red states"

I called someone out on that point in another discord

His argument was that Rand is bad and has been debunked by academics (though he initially worded it as an appeal to authority) and then proceeded to try to defend academia, which is where I hopped in with the hoaxes and bias

How do 'academics' debunk a philosophical ideology on- you know what, never mind.

Lol